#AsktheMayor; A Dangerous Jogging Stroller Avoids Recall; Talking to Your Teens About Pot; 2020 Hopeful Andrew Yang

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 5, 2019

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • The popular BOB jogging stroller was about to be recalled after hundreds of crashes and dozens of injuries. Todd Frankel, Washington Post enterprise reporter, reports on how the Consumer Product Safety Commission at first tried to force a recall, but then backed down when Trump administration appointees took control of the agency.
  • With the first week of our "Reefer, Managed" series concluded we open up the phones to parents: How do you talk to your teens about cannabis compared to how you talk about alcohol?
  • Andrew Yang, entrepreneur, founder of the non-profit Venture for America, 2020 presidential hopeful, and the author of The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future, talks about his presidential bid and his proposal to provide a universal basic income to all.

 

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